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RE: ZF Microsystems MachZ

I have the data book (500+ pages) on the MachZ.

The dev. board appears to be over priced to me too, but based upon how many
dev. boards they will ever sell and the fact that they include the break out
of all the buses (PCI/PC104/USB/IDE/ect...), 8 MB of memory, etc.. then it
is not that bad.

-bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Mostrom, Edward [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 10:46 AM
To: 
Subject: RE: ZF Microsystems MachZ

>>
>> Price: "as low as" $50.  Probably bulk rate of course.  Double for small
>> batches, maybe?  Beats me.
>EMJ has the chip by itself for $82. EMJ also sells it with the development
>board for $841. I would like to know the size of the dev board, but I'm
>having problems communicating w/ ZFMicro. Someone please help here (but be
>very careful how you approach them!

>The MachZ isn't a processor. It's a 35mm x 35mm x86 motherboard. It's core
>is a 32bit 586 processor with "full floating point capability." It
>features "traditional PC hardware features including PCI, ISA and Access
>(I2C) buses, serial and parallel I/O, floppy and hard disk controllers;"
>an SDRAM controller for a maximum of 256MB; and two independent USB
>interfaces.

If everything needed is on the chip, why is the dev board $841?

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